A Blockade on Knowledge. After June 12, Nothing Will Be the Same

You are looking at this through the lens of cost and alternative software tools, but this is not a technical or commercial issue. Programmers and tech companies will always find a temporary workaround or a cheaper API router. The core issue here is the terrifying precedent of cognitive censorship based on citizenship. This is about who owns the collective inheritance of human knowledge and whether a single government has the right to lock it away from the rest of humanity for geopolitical advantage. We must look past the code and address the shift in global power.